Senior Product Manager - Policies
Own the strategy and execution of Okta’s authentication policy platform, including policy evaluation, APIs, operational controls, and secure rollouts. The role requires 6+ years of product management experience and expertise in identity, security, enterprise, platform, or developer products.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own the roadmap and prioritization for Okta’s authentication policy product area.
- Collaborate with design and engineering to define, scope, and ship secure, user-friendly policy capabilities.
- Drive product direction for the Policy Framework, Policy API, and Auth Pipeline.
- Define operational management for policy changes, including versioning, staged rollouts, auditability, and rollback.
- Work with customers, Solutions Engineering, Support, and product teams to translate policy needs into product requirements.
- Use AI tools for specification writing, competitive analysis, and rapid prototyping.
- Coordinate with global engineering, field, partnerships, and marketing teams to support launches and adoption.
- Represent Policies in customer escalations, executive briefings, enterprise evaluations, and marketing and go-to-market partnerships.
- Track trends in adaptive authentication, risk-based access, and session security.
Requirements
- 6+ years of product management experience.
- Experience with identity, security, enterprise-scale, platform, or developer products.
- Ability to conduct in-depth technical discussions with engineering teams.
- Ability to connect platform decisions to business outcomes and market positioning.
- Strong customer empathy and problem-discovery skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication, from detailed specifications to executive narratives.
- Entrepreneurial ownership and ability to drive ambiguous initiatives forward.
- Collaborative approach with customers and cross-functional stakeholders.
Nice to Have
- Experience with policy engines, rules-based decisioning systems, or risk-scoring products.
- Experience with change-management tooling, feature flags, or safe-rollout systems at scale.
- Experience with non-human identity or agentic identity use cases related to authentication policy.
Compensation
- United States base salary: $189,000–$260,000 for candidates in the San Francisco Bay Area; $169,000–$232,000 for candidates in California excluding the San Francisco Bay Area, Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington.
- Canada base salary: $146,000–$200,000 CAD.
- Compensation may also include equity, bonus, and benefits. Canadian benefits include RRSP matching, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave.
Skills
Product Management, Identity Security, Authentication, Policy Engines, Policy Api, Risk Scoring, Adaptive Authentication, Feature Flags, Change Management, Product Roadmapping, Agile Development, AI Tools
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